MODULE: Lifestyle SUBJECT TITLE: Lifestyle and career Gintarė Joteikaitė
Subject title
Purpose of the activity
Duration
Location and tools Number of participants
Lifestyle and career To help young people understand the peculiarities of modern lifestyle and to form a vision of a career path, taking into account their personal life experiences.
2 hours.
The presentation requires a projector, writing board, paper and writing tools for participants, tables, chairs, sticky notes, adhesive tape for gluing posters in space.
Unlimited, but the most effective number – 16–20 participants. METHOD “What if?“ Participants are asked to form pairs by choosing the least familiar person. While being in pairs, they are asked a certain question: “If each of you knew that you now have unlimited financial resources for the whole life, what would you do?“
Acquaintance/ team building methods
Participants are given 3 minutes to talk about this topic, so that each of them could express his/her vision. Each participant is then asked to find another least familiar partner and a second question is asked: “If you could change one thing in the world – what would it be and why?“ Similarly, a third question is asked for new pairs: “If you could choose one superpower – what would it be, why would you want to have namely that power and how would it help you?“ At the end of the method, participants are revealed that the above questions and their initial intuitive answers to these questions are the first steps in getting to know better their own personal talents and vocations. The answer to the first question provides each participant with information about what activity can actually become the one that generates finances. The answer to the second question gives a hint about the vocation of the personality, and the answer to the third question metaphorically talks about the inner talents of the participants. Task no. 1
Practical tasks
Invite participants to draw a square of the four professions and divide it into four segments so that each segment would be dedicated to a specific profession: „artisan and craftsman“, „scholar-educator“, „organizer“, „entrepreneur“. At the beginning of the task, it is indicated that each person has traits in himself/herself that are characteristic of all four professions, but some characteristics dominate, while others are less pronounced. All four segments together make up 100 percent of personality self-expression. Participants are asked to decide and write down what percentage of themselves and their daily lives they see in each segment, i.e. what percentage of his/her personality consists of a master, a scholar-educator, an organizer, and an entrepreneur. Next to each segment, they are also asked to write down what daily actions and activities that they do mean that they act as representatives of one of aforementioned professions. Time to complete the task: 10–15 minutes.
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